horrible

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Very unpleasant or bad.

   The food at that restaurant was absolutely horrible.

2. 2
   adj

   Causing shock and fear; terrible.

   They described the accident in horrible detail.

First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

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